>From the archives:
...Maxi. Pre-dates Maxi-Car - before World War II, these were the preferred hubs in the French technical trials (Vintage Bicycle Quarterly issue 3 will cover the trials).
See the flats on the cone? Maxi are standard cup and cone hubs, albeit very nice ones. Maxi-Car are very different.
Jan Heine, Seattle
On 12/19/05, Geoff Duke <g.duke@civenv.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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> Reading the latest issue of VBQ I was looking attentively at the
> Rebour drawings and descriptions of the Goeland bicycles.I noticed
> that some of them were equipped with Maxi hubs and some with Maxi-Car
> hubs.What is the difference? Anyone? Merry Christmas.
> Geoff Duke Melbourne Australia
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
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